And then, Suddenly, it was August!

I was going to post here at least once a week, if not daily. Looking at my last post, which was in July, I realized that I am falling woefully short of this goal. Oh well.
I might have written a review of the new X-Files movie, but I don’t feel like it. Nobody reads this shit anyway. It wasn’t bad. If you like the X-Files and you don’t need/expect aliens and government conspiracy, then go see it. No, I have not seen The Dark Knight yet, but I haven’t seen Batman Begins yet either, so I don’t want to see them out of sequence.

So, last night (and this morning), dExtrosien and I went to visit someone we’ve known for years. First, we watched The Lost Boys, then we watched Lost Boys: The Tribe. After that, we talked for hours about

Happy 4th

Okay, so it’s actually the 6th. I celebrated the 4th by going to my house and vegging out and trying to Frankenstein some server parts together (and failing), then going next door to where the free food and Margaritas were, then down to Claremont beach to watch some fireworks (those across the river, that is), then down to my cousins’ beach and having homemade ice cream and trying to figure out a wooden burr puzzle. Funny thing is, I haven’t had homemade ice cream there in probably 20 years, but that day I thought “Wouldn’t it be great if somebody decided to make homemade ice cream again?” But I didn’t say it out loud, and I didn’t jinx it. Woohoo!
But basically, what I’m meandering my way around to saying is this: I spent the 4th of July being lazy and, pretty much contributing nothing to society. Well, unless you count working on my online game as a societal contribution, but that’s dubious at best. No, I lounged around and rested, and wasted time, and did pretty much nothing of any value. And why is it that I

Amir, da Office, and a Car Wreck

So I’m sitting here in Denny’s, eating a Lumberjack Slam with dExtrosien (who is enjoying a Bacon Cheddar Burger), and suddenly dExtrosien points out the window and says “wow!”. There’s a three-car… no, make that a four-car fender-bender right out our window! As I write this, the Tuckahoe Rescue Squad is on the scene, tending to the likely whiplash victim. Airbags went off, hoods were crumpled… Yikes. Denny’s must have soundproof windows, because all we heard was a quiet thump.
But anyway, before all this happened, I was about to gush about my newest hero, Amir Sadollah. I’m not a big fan of wrestling, kickboxing, what have you, but one night I happened to switch to Spike and caught “The Ultimate Fighter”. I wasn’t going to watch it, but I noticed that right after these two guys got done grappling, pummeling, and brutalizing each other, they got up, shook hands, and hugged each other. Huh? What about all the trash-talking and bad attitudes? Where was that?

GET IN THE HOUSE!!

So let’s say you just got home, and your car’s AC has just died. You really need to get in the house, but the door is locked. So what do you do? You look around for a key, right? Better hurry, or you might just die of heat stroke! YouTube doesn’t normally lend itself to interactive games, but with their new annotations feature, you can add subtitles, supertitles, “spotlights”, and word balloons to your videos. You can also make these link to other YouTube videos and/or pages.
What does this have to do with trying to get into your house after your car’s AC has failed? That’s the premise of my new game (or “Interactive Video Experience” as I like to call it) which is titled (strangely enough) “Get In The House”.
Alternate title is “Get In Da House” since